News
June, 2009
Stanford, CA - CREDO at Stanford University in partnership with the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the Colorado League of Charter Schools announces the release of A Framework for Operational Quality: A Report from the National Consensus Panel on Charter School Operational Quality. Visit the BCSQ web site for more information.
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June, 2009
The Performance Management Institute is Online.
Stanford, CA - CREDO at Stanford University is proud to announce the launch of the innovative online Performance Management Institute. The online Institute provides web-based training to enhance the ability of charter school operators and authorizers, as well as others, to adopt and apply performance measurement practices to charter schooling and oversight.
Visit the BCSQ web site for more information.
June, 2008
The BCSQ Consensus Panel released the Academic Quality Consensus Report. Download the paper.
May, 2008
Macke Raymond was invited to speak at the CESifo/PEPG Joint Conference on "Economic Incentives: Do They Work In Education" in Munich, Germany. To explore the use of economic incentives in education, CESifo Munich and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) of Harvard University hosted jointly a conference in Munich, Germany on 16-17 May 2008. Macke was selected to present recent research on student incentive programs in charter schools. Download the paper.
March, 2008
Secretary Spellings announced a differentiated accountability pilot to allow states to distinguish between those schools in improvement that are just missing the mark and those that need significant reform. Differentiated accountability will allow participating states to vary the intensity and type of interventions to match the academic reasons that led to a school's identification for improvement. Differentiated accountability will assist those states by targeting resources and interventions to those schools most in need of intensive interventions and significant reform. Macke Raymond was asked to serve as Chair of the expert panel of peers who will review the 17 proposals submitted by states, and set the course for the next generation of accountability policy in the United States.
October, 2006
CREDO, in partnership with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and the Colorado League of Charter Schools, was awarded a National Activities Grant from the United States Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement. By the end of the three-year grant, the Building Charter School Quality Project will achieve improved student achievement by helping charter school operators and authorizers strengthen their performance management practices. The project will identify and develop best practices in the measurement of student and school performance, the management of performance data, and the use of performance measures for school improvement and authorizers' oversight duties. The project will help align expectations among operators, authorizers, funders, and lenders around how a quality charter school performs and how different stakeholders can work together to hold schools accountable for good or bad performance.
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Featured Research
Student Reward and Incentive Programs
in Charter Schools
The use of student reward and incentive programs in K-12 education has been met with support, skepticism and indignation. Until now, the characteristics of these programs and the degree to which they improve student academic achievement had not been examined. This study examines a non-random sample of charter schools and their decisions to use or forego an incentive program in their school to see if the systems enhance academic achievement gains.
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California Failing Schools
California adopted in 1998 an accountability plan designed to stimulate improvement in public schools across the state. This study examines the subsequent performance of nearly 1100 schools. The findings show a surprising responsiveness in improvement for the majority of schools, suggesting that accountability policies are a viable way to achieve broad scale gains in achievement for students.
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U.S. Department of Education
CREDO completed a study for the U.S. Department of Education measuring states' program activities and evaluation methods in light of the No Child Left Behind Act.
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